Koeksisters – South African Doughnuts

We all have seen that doughnuts are round in shape. Have you ever seen braided doughnuts? Here I present you braided South African Doughnuts – Koeksisters.

What is Koeksisters

A Koeksisters is a traditional confectionery made of fried dough infused in sugar syrup.It is made by deep frying the dough and dipping it in ice cold sugar syrup. It have a golden crunchy outer and soft,sweet inside texture. This doughnut have a unique braided shape which excites kids for sure.

My son said that the doughnut looks like his sister’s braid. How funny kids imagination is.

How to make Koeksisters

The first step to make Koeksisters is to make sugar syrup. We add cinnamon stick and ginger in the sugar syrup.Let it stay in refrigerator overnight.Then make the dough with whole wheat,baking powder,egg,butter and required water to smooth dough. Let it rest for 3 hours.

Then divide the dough into two halves. Roll one half to thin circle shape. After that cut the circle in half and then into strips of 1/2 inch ( check step wise pics). Braid it and deep fry it. Then dip in cold sugar syrup. Later keep it in cooling rack to remove excess sugar syrup. Serve. If you feel the doughnuts looks dry while serving, drizzle some sugar syrup. That’s what I did when my kids need more sugar syrup.

Left – my first try Right – after two trial

Food Bloggers Recipe Swap

I made this Koeksisters for the Food Bloggers Recipe Swap challenge from FB group. I have already said about this group here. This month, I am paired with Nayna Kanbar of Simply Sensational Food. She has an array of great recipes and she is also an author of two awesome cookbooks. I chose to make her Keoksisters recipe.

Koeksisters - South African Doughnuts

A Koeksisters is a traditional confectionery made of fried dough infused in sugar syrup.It is made by deep frying the dough dipped in sugar syrup.

Course Dessert

Cuisine South Africa

Keyword Dessert, doughnuts, Koeksisters, Whole Wheat

Prep Time 30minutes

Cook Time 10minutes

Cooling syrup time 12hours

Total Time 40minutes

Servings 12Nos

Author Lathiya Shanmugasundaram

Ingredients

For Dough

1CupWhole Wheat Flour

1NosEgg

2TbsnButterRoom tempertaure

1TspBaking Powder

Salt A pinch

Water As required

OilTo deep Fry

For Sugar syrup

1CupSugar

1CupWater

Cinnamon Sticka small stick

GingerA few pieces

1TspLemon Juice

Instructions

Let's start with making sugar syrup. Take all ingredients under 'sugar syrup' except lemon juice.

Boil it till the sugar dissolves.Then reduce the flame and let it boil for few more minutes. Next add lemon juice so the sugar doesn't crystallize.

When you see the sugar syrup starts thickening, remove from heat. Later when it cools down, keep it refrigerator for overnight.

Now,let's start making dough for doughnut. Take all ingredients except water and oil in a bowl.

Mix it to crumbs. After that add water slowly to make it a soft dough. Keep it covered for 3 hours.

After that divide the dough into two halves. Roll one half to thin circle.

Divide the circle in half and then cut it into thin strips of 1/2 inch.

Take three strips, press one end and then start braiding and press the end too. So it may not open while frying.

It may be difficult first time but when you keep doing, you can expertise.

Repeat with all the remaining dough.

Now, heat oil in a pan. Deep fry the braided dough till golden.

Take the sugar syrup from refrigerator and dip the hot doughnuts in cold syrup.

Keep it in cooler rack to drip excess sugar syrup.

Repeat with all other braids.

Serve.

Notes

In the original recipe, they used cream of tarter. But I did not.

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